Daemon Sophic
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I still like the idea put forward a few years back. Pay all the farmers double what they normally get for their poppies, then continue to pay them that sum every year, forever, only if they grow food crops in the future.
- You halt poppy production.
- You grow food crops locally for the Afghan people.
- You make a whole lot of farmers and local people better off and much happier about U.S. involvement, with friendly inspectors dropping by to make sure there's no poppy, and to hand out the money with a friendly U.S. face attached to it.
.....and......
- It all costs less then keeping one battalion in the field.
- You halt poppy production.
- You grow food crops locally for the Afghan people.
- You make a whole lot of farmers and local people better off and much happier about U.S. involvement, with friendly inspectors dropping by to make sure there's no poppy, and to hand out the money with a friendly U.S. face attached to it.
.....and......
- It all costs less then keeping one battalion in the field.